A couple of friends and I are looking to start an rp involving the Marauders (Harry Potter's parents/their friends). The plotline is to start with a part at the Potter's house including all of the high up families in the wizarding world (and whatever friends their children bring along hinthint) and then later move on to having a Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts. This means that characters may be from other schools (Beauxbatons and Durmstrang) and we'll need mostly student characters as opposed to teachers which whoever can use when needed. We're looking for people with decent writing skills (a two paragraph minimum), so, we'd like it if you could pm me or Toto, a writing prompt of sorts.

The writing prompt has to be the character you're using doing something. Easy and simple as that. However, anyone wishing to play a canon character (one from the books) must submit a prompt of the following: The character is doing their very favorite activity.

Erm, if its your own character, yeah. I mean, just a general description of them should be fine and hopefully the prompt will fill in the rest. If it's a canon character, just the prompt will do. We know who they are.

I'm intrigued, but would love to know more. What kind of themes and material do you plan to go with this? How 'adult' is this going to be? How far in the timeline, and will there be opportunities to change events or will the players be locked in?

Well, as of right now, everything is kind of u in the air theme wise. We are welcoming any input you may have, but right now we just have a very loose theme that is open to slight changes. Adult wise, I'd say consensual sex, just because I know my other friends aren't as...open about the other stuff as I am, but it can be as descriptive as you'd like(we'd prefer descriptive, really!). From experience, we usually start at the beginning of the year to encourage everyone to develop relationships that can start at school and possibly last afterwards, or just be an at school type of deal. Aaaaand, I'm not sure I understand the last part of your question. ;

Well, as of right now, everything is kind of u in the air theme wise. We are welcoming any input you may have, but right now we just have a very loose theme that is open to slight changes. Adult wise, I'd say consensual sex, just because I know my other friends aren't as...open about the other stuff as I am, but it can be as descriptive as you'd like(we'd prefer descriptive, really!). From experience, we usually start at the beginning of the year to encourage everyone to develop relationships that can start at school and possibly last afterwards, or just be an at school type of deal. Aaaaand, I'm not sure I understand the last part of your question. ;

Well... for example... will James & Lily be destined to die, betrayed by Peter Pettigrew? Will Voldemort grow inevitably to power and then fall? Is the canon universe more of a backdrop to build upon or a constraint that the player characters are locked to abide by?

Well, I think right now we're gonna go with canon for the most part. I mean, Voldy will still be in the works and stuff, but I'm not sure most of the other stuff applies since this will mostly take place before the book gives much information. Like, I assume James and Lily will still be together-ish and Snape will still hate them all, but other than that, there's not much info about that time.

Which is one of the reasons why it's so fun. ^_^ Personally, I like to do things canon, so a looser area of time that we know some about as opposed to mostly all about, is better. One can do more because most things aren't set in concrete.

The double edge to that preference for canon is that there is no real consequences for playing in the past. James and Lily cannot die until they have Harry. Severus cannot die until he passes on his secret to Harry. In fact, nothing really bad can happen to any of the canon characters at all. They all get their timeline drawn out because canon demands certain things, so James could be as reckless as he wants and nothing would hurt him.

Perhaps, but that doesn't stop lesser characters from getting their ass handed to them in the most horrible way you can imagine. And that doesn't mean James is invincible. It just means they can't die...yet. But there are still plenty of things that could potentially be worse than dying, if played the right way. Just gotta be creative.

I agree. Yeah playing canon can be somewhere constricting, but there are so many things that haven't been laid out that give us room to play. I mean, like Kai and Toto have mentioned, really terrible things can still happen because there's so much we don't know about the characters lives.

Not to mention, I've played with them before and I can personally tell you that the canon is a guideline rather than a specific set of rules that you must follow or perish.